Putting them on his back: Arsenal are already reliant on Alexis Sanchez's goals (Image: Stuart MacFarlane)

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Alexis Sanchez has been hailed as Arsenal's answer to Sergio Aguero or Luis Suarez.

Chilean striker Sanchez has taken the Premier League by storm with his spectacular goals and breathless performances. It has left Aaron Ramsey insisting the £33million summer signing from Barcelona is in the same bracket as fellow South Americans Aguero and Suarez.

Arsenal midfielder Ramsey said: "With the South American players, it is sort of bred into them to work hard, he is no different to any of the other players like Suarez or Aguero, so we are grateful to have him in our team.

"He gives 100 per cent - everybody is at it in training all the time. We like to train hard. He works hard for the team and when he gets an opportunity to score, he scores. we are grateful to have him in our team.

"It took him a couple of games to get into it, but he has not stopped scoring since. The thing which has impressed me most about him is his work-rate off the ball. It is always nice when the team is scoring goals, at the moment, he is doing it.

"Olivier Giroud scored the other day [in his first game since suffering a broken leg in August] and he is coming back into it now, so hopefully we have the players who are scoring goals."

Sanchez already has 13 goals this season from 20 appearances and Arsenal are becoming increasingly reliant on the 25-year-old amid their stuttering start to the Premier League campaign.

Ramsey added: "It is a great achievement, all credit to the manager and players in those 15 years. We are always hungry to go on in this competition and do the best that we can.

'We are through now and hopefully we can have a very successful Champions League. We have come out winners against Borussia Dortmund and hopefully now we can get back to winning ways in the Premier League and go on a winning run there as well.

"It is obviously disappointing with the injuries, but hopefully not as bad as we think. We will have to wait and see. That is part of the game, injuries happen and we have to deal with our business as normally do. We have enough quality in the squad to produce great performances on the weekend, no matter who comes in.

"It was a really pleasing performance against Dortmund, we picked up where we left off from Man United in terms of the way we played, but we got the early goal this time, which we did not get against United.

"It always helps when you do, and you could see the confidence in the team, we defended really well and kept a clean sheet.

"Strikers always gain confidence from scoring goals, the team is happy for him (Sanogo) that he scored and contributed for us winning the game."